Led by Donkeys Buy The Brexit Party Domain Before Nigel Farage (opens in new tab)

If the domain was bought after the brexit party was founded - I wonder if its ownership can be claimed by the brexit party. At least with EU domain (and domains of individual countries under EU law) this falls under this case. Meaning that if you claim domain just to sell it for profits and cannot prove you have other purpose - its ownership will be transferred to the "name owners".

Wouldn't they want thebrexitparty.co.uk? .com doesn't seem too sovereign.

I doubt that Farage would care about buying such a domain given that he knows that his party only exists due to the UK's reluctance to deliver Brexit.

He even said in a ITV interview that he would have to 'rebrand' his party after Brexit happens. So I find that it is unlikely that he would care about buying this domain especially a .com one.

Wouldn't cyber squatting laws just hand over the domain to their party if asked? They are even being asked for money, even if only in jest, which strengthens their case.

very uninteresting

With all due respect; from HN's posting guidelines..

>Stories on HN don't have to be about hacking, because good hackers aren't only interested in hacking, but they do have to be deeply interesting.

Which is fair enough. Also;

> What does "deeply interesting" mean? It means stuff that teaches you about the world. A story about a robbery, for example, would probably not be deeply interesting. But if this robbery was a sign of some bigger, underlying trend, perhaps it could be.

>The worst thing to post or upvote is something that's intensely but shallowly interesting: gossip about famous people, funny or cute pictures or videos, partisan political articles, etc.

IMO this posted 'article' goes against the guidelines. It is not 'deeply interesting', teaches us nothing about the world, and is verging on politically partisan (yes let's have a chuckle at the brexit party because someone bought a domain name - teehee!)

I mean, what's the news here? Someone bought a domain name. Which just happens to be a domain name the brexit party /might/ have been interested in but probably not because it's a .com

Yet here we are, with it being upvoted. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯